This blog displays some learning activities of students in ESL 950PL Intermediate English Pronunciation and Listening taught by Prof. Marsha Chan at Mission College, Santa Clara, California. The goal of this course is to improve learners' pronunciation so that they can speak more clearly and therefore communicate more effectively.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Chapter 5 Oral Composition: A Story in the Past
Choose one of the topics in Phrase by Phrase Chapter 5, page 52. Compose a short talk (1-1.5 minutes).
- Choose one day in the past at your workplace and tell how you completed a task or occupied your time. Use regular past tense verbs.
- Tell about one of the things that you built, fixed, or created in the past. Use regular past tense verbs.
Incorporate the sound focuses:
- Word stress and intonation
- /t/ as in time
- /d/ as in do
- Regular past tense –ed endings /t/, /d/, and /id/
- Vowel length
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